What movies have not aged well?

[HunterSdVa29]

I rewatched Young Guns a few years ago, and was thoroughly embarrassed for my former youthful self. But hey, I was young and my brain was not fully developed.

Meh, I still don't deserve any slack.

tbf they were trying to 'modernize' Westerns, even more so than say Silverado, Pale Rider or Unforgiven did (which they really didn't just were filmed in the 80s and 90s)

hence the Bon Jovi soundtrack for part II (i only referenced the Silvestri score earlier, not the soundtrack) and casting 'heartthrob' actors in the roles, more use of slow mo and other camera techniques

I always thought Kiefer and William Peterson as Pat Garrett did really solid acting jobs however

 

[BisexualMMA]

wait, somebody said Young Guns?

first of all, both the first and especially the second have some of the best scores EVER
second of all....ok those movies were pretty shitty in reality hahaha

Young Guns was good and Young Guns 2 was even better.

You're absolutely right about the Silvestri score though. I've brought it up before on here and it should have received Oscar attention.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

Young Guns was good and Young Guns 2 was even better.

You're absolutely right about the Silvestri score though. I've brought it up before on here and it should have received Oscar attention.

especially when you consider many of the songs are just retooling of the main theme, with different tempo/instruments/etc....

I listen it to all the time while cleaning the house and other things, the whole thing is on YT

and i love those movies, both of them, but i get if others don't.....

 

[BisexualMMA]

especially when you consider many of the songs are just retooling of the main theme, with different tempo/instruments/etc....

I listen to all the time while cleaning the house and other things, the whole thing is on YT

Yep, it's an all time great. He actually built the whole score off a throwaway piece of music for Flight of the Navigator (Robot Romp) that he knew was meant for bigger and better things.

 

[Midnighter]

Only thing I got from this thread is that I'm about to fight @Drain Bamage

 

[Nimrod]

It's a good movie it just hasn't aged well. Still better than most. Just has a very 90's feel too it. Dated doesn't automatically mean bad imo.

Theres a chance it was shot on actual film rather than digital ... that's why it 'LOOKS' like a real movie .. not a TV program..

 

[Nimrod]

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Probably John Carpenters The Thing from 1982. Still a great movie but the effects are definitely dated. Although amazingly they still look better then a lot of today’s CGI.

So, effects but dated, but compared to todays CGI better???!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

Thats is quite possibly the most RETARDED statement of all time.. well done man..

 

[Alphaboy]

Anything from the 90s or 00s with CGI.

Think stuff like the mummy or blade end fight scene.

*Stares Jurassic Parkly*

I think Jurassic Park's graphics MIRACULOUSLY hold up today. For the most part I agree though.

 

[MaureenCretis]

Little known fact, Bill Murray's scenes were cut from Schindler's List when they decided that it shouldn't be a comedy.

spielberg fucks it up again...

 

[tobiaswins]

So, effects but dated, but compared to todays CGI better???!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

Thats is quite possibly the most RETARDED statement of all time.. well done man..

Well I didn’t say all cgi, I think we can all agree there are some movies today with horrendously bad cgi and so yes I do think those older practical effects looked better than some of today’s bad cgi.

 

[Drain Bamage]

Only thing I got from this thread is that I'm about to fight @Drain Bamage

 

[Drain Bamage]

Theres a chance it was shot on actual film rather than digital ... that's why it 'LOOKS' like a real movie .. not a TV program..

HEAT was shot anamorphic on 35mm with Panavision Primos which were the best lenses available in the 90's. They are Leica glass rehoused and remounted by Panavision.

Ironic then, that it actually looks EXACTLY like a bad TV program. How the hell does one even make 35mm with the best lenses available at the time look this bad?



Years later Michael Mann would become one of the first people to start shooting movies on digital cameras which is why his recent movies look the way they do. He prefers using rolling shutter which lets a little more light in but also increases motion blur - it's why movies like Public Enemies and Blackhat have that smeared digital look to them.

 

[therealdope]

Just watched as much of Matrix 2 as I could get through.

It's not good. I remember why I never bothered with the third now.

3rd one sucked, 2nd is a classic.

 

[therealdope]

HEAT was shot anamorphic on 35mm with Panavision Primos which were the best lenses available in the 90's. They are Leica glass rehoused and remounted by Panavision.

Ironic then, that it actually looks EXACTLY like a bad TV program. How the hell does one even make 35mm with the best lenses available at the time look this bad?



Years later Michael Mann would become one of the first people to start shooting movies on digital cameras which is why his recent movies look the way they do. He prefers using rolling shutter which lets a little more light in but also increases motion blur - it's why movies like Public Enemies and Blackhat have that smeared digital look to them.

Ya well Black Hat sucked while Heat is a classic. I always assumed that the scenes at the beach house and on the balcony with Eady were green screened. The rest of the movie looks fine.

An absolute classic, I don't know how HEAT gets mentioned in this thread.

 

[Drain Bamage]

An absolute classic, I don't know how HEAT gets mentioned in this thread.

Because it hasn't aged well, that's why. Like I said, it's still a good movie, just has some dated elements. Like the scene I posted above. Do you think that scene has aged well?

 

[Buddy Revell]

Manchester by the Sea:

Ooh boy, this was a terrible movie. Watching a grown ass man mope around and feel sorry for himself for 2.5 hours while literally nothing happens. All the relevant information is revealed in flashbacks, which are interspersed around every 30 minutes via sequences of Casey Affleck dicking around Manchester-By-The-Sea in his overpriced workwear.

Its liker nobody told the director that the difference between a movie and a play is that when you make a movie something has to actually happen. Your character has to either grow and learn or go on a journey. This film did neither. It was just a pitty party showcase for Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams (85/15). Nothing happens… seriously.

A complete waste of time.

 

[Kingz]

I never understood why people nitpick these things. Unless the film is supposed to be a about the future than time does it no favors but i think all films are supposed to be representative of their time which is why “updates” of films are never very good.

a cell phone couldn’t have changed Kevin McAllistars situation because it was 1989. The technological revolution does nothing for Kevin. People talk like it harms the films to be “dated” but If anything they are educational and a time capsule. Nowadays they deliberately make movies set in times where they can avoid the suspense numbing pitfalls of modern technology but these films were the real thing.

 

[Midnighter]

Manchester by the Sea:

Ooh boy, this was a terrible movie. Watching a grown ass man mope around and feel sorry for himself for 2.5 hours while literally nothing happens. All the relevant information is revealed in flashbacks, which are interspersed around every 30 minutes via sequences of Casey Affleck dicking around Manchester-By-The-Sea in his overpriced workwear.

Its liker nobody told the director that the difference between a movie and a play is that when you make a movie something has to actually happen. Your character has to either grow and learn or go on a journey. This film did neither. It was just a pitty party showcase for Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams (85/15). Nothing happens… seriously.

A complete waste of time.

Such a good movie.

 

[chickenluver]

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To be fair in that care, it's a literal devil on his shoulder telling him to fuck a passed out drunk girl, then an angel on his other shoulder tells him he shouldn't do it, and in the end he doesn't do it.

 

[Kowboy Karl]

To be fair in that care, it's a literal devil on his shoulder telling him to fuck a passed out drunk girl, then an angel on his other shoulder tells him he shouldn't do it, and in the end he doesn't do it.

I don’t have a problem with it

just showing it how times have changed